MOOBE’S BUBAL MEW-YOBKEB. 
APRIL S 
cannot be misunderstood. Salesroom at 707 
Broadway, New York, and in all other cities in 
the United States. The company want agents 
in country towns. 
deposited in seams in formations of [this pecu¬ 
liar kind. This grahnmlte was not, of course, 
sot on fire by any one ; such an act would neees- 
sarilly be impossible as offending against the 
laws of Omnipotent construction. At some 
distance above high-water mark, I detected 
sulphurous deposits am) traces of metallic 
oxide. 
"The action of sulphur on metallic oxides, 
even in small quantities, in the presence of 
water will generate heat to a degree abundantly 
sufficient t o ignite a mass of as combustible a 
nature as the graliamite. Thu water, I take it, 
was supplied by the thawing of the snow and 
the unprecedented rise of Cedar ('reek in the 
early part of last w eek. So 1 am Inclined to 
consider the cause of t his great chemical action, 
and do not lean toward attributing it as suggest¬ 
ed by Mr. Me Curtin, to the action of elec¬ 
tricity.” 
a trial ....Carpenters, masons and waiters 
threaten to strike... The widening of Broadway 
has commenced.. . President Grant and family 
are In town The murderer of Goodrich had 
not been arrested on the 20th nil .The Spring 
trade Is dull and backward, owing to the long 
G. F.Train refuses 
T. Ban mm has opened 
Bellow has lectured on 
It is Pleasant and Profitable 
TO FORM CLUBS FOR 
Winter, the epizootic,etc 
to leave the Tombs... 
his new show ... J. M 
Goldsmith. 
Home Kew». 
At the last moment the Modoc Indians re¬ 
fused to leave their old home. It is proposed 
to surround them in the lava beds ...Two 
strikers were shot in a row at Hannibal. Mo,, 
on the 2Sd ult One Louis L. Luslgnani is be 
bung at Morristown. N. J., May 1st James 
llorskor, a Philadelphia politician, committed 
suicide on t he S?d nit. . Local option h»* been 
generally defeated in Pennsylvania Senator 
('aldwe)l, of Kansas, resigned on Du 4 24th ult 
Massachusetts will give the Agassiz Museum 
*50,000 On the fifth mi engine left the truck at 
St. Joseph, Mich., killing three men . The 
Chartcrquestion still engages the attention of 
the New York Legislature .A Central 
Workingmen’s League has been established 
in Washington....Gen. Leggett. Commissioner 
of Patents, is to resign. The Natural Bridge, 
in Virginia- is falling to pieces... .The Senate 
tVateh No. 1007, Stem Winder — bearing 
Trade Mark "Frederic Atherton & Co.,.Marion, 
N. J.”—manufactured by United Stales Watch 
Co., (Giles, Wales & Cm), lias been carried by me 
some months; its total variation from mean 
time being only eight seconds per month.—W m. 
Mitchell, Conductor P. & K, H, It. 
Any Young Man can make from $5 to $10 per 
day taking orders for the Flowing Spring Poul¬ 
try Fountain. .See advertisement, send for a 
sample and circular, with discounts. Money re¬ 
funded If not satisfactory. Address Iron Clad 
Can Co., 51 Dey St., New York. 
A PREMIUM OR CASH COMMIS 
SION TO EVERY ACENT ! 
From Feb. 2'i, 1873, and d/ttring the Rural’s 
Spring Campaign, {if not longer,) Every Agent 
can have either a Premium or Liberal Cash 
Commission, as preferred. Send for Supple¬ 
ment containing full particulars as to both 
Premiums and Cash Commissions. 
Post-Masters. Merchants, Manufacturers, 
Mechanics, Clerics, and. indeed most persons 
engaged in Stores, Offices, Factories, Shops, 
Ac,, can cusily form clubs without, leaving 
their places of business — 'while. Farmers, 
Clergymen, Teachers, Pupils, (both (I iris and 
Boys,) and many others, can make, it pay to 
canvass their towns or neighborhoods. 
SEND FOR THE DOCUMENTS! 
'I lie Mule anecdote, of " How It Saved a Man’s 
Life," is a very funny story told about the Blan¬ 
chard Churn. Send to any dealer in first-class 
dairy implements for a circular containing it. 
Wm. Lloyd Carrison’s Autobiography. 
An effort is being made to induce William 
Lloyd Garrison to write his autobiography 
and a history of his time. No matter what may 
be thought of Mr. Garrison personally and 
there are many who think lie could not possibly 
be impartial even relative to himself—be would 
bo able to give a vast amount of historical in¬ 
formation of value to students of American 
history and of the underlying and apparently 
hidden agencies which precipitat ed upon us our 
late civil war and resulted in the overthrow of 
slavery. It Is certainly to be hoped Mr. Gar¬ 
rison will comply for this reason alone. 
Ail Article of True Merit. — 44 Brown’s Urnn- 
riifnl Troches" arc the most popular article in 
this country or Europe, for Throat Diseases and 
Coughs, and this is based upon real merit. 
The Hoiiili.—All seeking Southern investments 
or homes should send for this paper, published 
at 1(51 William St,, New York. $3 a year; single 
copies, 10 cents. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
Advice.—Send for free Price List 
Scale Works, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Centerville, hi. Jo. Co., Ohio, March 241. 
Winter set in Nov. 14; good sleighing since 24th; 
snow three feet on the level. Not, so very severe 
cold for this part of the country; not very good 
crop in these parts last season ; wheat, oats and 
hay, very light crop; hay. from $1? to $22; rye 
straw, $«; oat straw, $7»? 10 per tuu; beef, $0.05 
per hundred; pork, $0.75; Sheep, $1 to $-5each ; 
lambs, $i to $0 ; eggs. 555c. per do/.; butter, from 
15c. to 25c. per lb : cheese, 7c. to He; honey, 15c. 
to 10; onions. $1.80 per bush; potatoes, 35c; 
turnips, 6Qo; carrots, 50c ; parsnips, 00c ; bean-, 
$1.50; barley, 56c; fall wheat, $1.15; spring wheat, 
$1.40; peas, 70c; corn, 70c ; outs, 42c ; buckwheat, 
flOc ; wool, 45c. per 111; oat meal, $5.50 per barrel; 
corn meal, $3.50; wheat Hour, $3.50; provender, 
$1.00 per lb; bran, 80c ; sheep pelts, $1.25; lamb 
skins, $1.00; hides, $7.00 per hundred; lumber, 
from $6 to $22 per M ; turkeys, $1.80 per pair.— k. 
a. r. m. 
Si. Charles, Kane Co., III., March 25.—Win¬ 
ter set in here Nov. 20. stopping plowing and 
other out-of-door work, cxeept corn-picking, 
which lusted through December. Home art* not 
done busking yet. Common laborer's will not 
work for loss than $1.50 per day, which is ex¬ 
orbitant at Ibis lime of year, when only about 
eight hours work can be got out of them. The 
winter has been the coldest On record the mer¬ 
cury falling to 32 below zero, and stood 10° to 
30° below for day* together. By the 10th Inst, 
the frost had disappeared from the surface so 
that farmers sowed their spring wheat; but 
yesterday a snowstorm set in, and to-day it 
is anowlng and blowing hard. We have to pay 
farm help $20 per month and board. Wheat, 
$1.15; corn, 50c.; oata. 20£&25c.; barley, 50}'80c.; 
horse-, $125©200; cows, $30® 00; pork, dressed, 
$4'}'5 per 100 pounds, n. h. 
Melvasn, Baltimore Co., Mil., March 2 4.^ 
Weather the past week a series of frosts, thuws 
and blows. Yesterday was the first spring-like 
day of the year, but to-day winter seems re¬ 
turning,‘I he morning dawning with a raw, chilly 
rain and about 4 P. M. It commenced freezing as 
it fell on the ground ; fences and tiers are cov¬ 
ered with ice. Fanners here have nothing 
done; very few have commenced plowing. Have 
not seen the first appearance of u crocus, nar¬ 
cissus or of the old fashioned daffodil, that was I 
wont always to bloom at Faster. Hay has been 
scarce and high, very indifferent quality selling 
at $32. per ton, retail.—NOVICE. 
Harlem Hjtrings, Car’l Co., <>., March S3.—We 
have hud a cold winter. Corn crop was very 
good, a great deal stood’out owing to the winter 
commencing early. Some heavy snows, tint no 
good sleighing; winter wheat looks tolerably 
well. Stock looks well: horses worth from 
$150 to $200; cows $20 to $70; farm hands get 
from $180to $200 per year; land $40 to $00 per 
acre. Peaches arosaid to be all killed.—,i. b. g. 
Additions lo Clubs are always In order. Rend 
them in ones, twos, fives, tens or more, as yon please. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS 
Moore’s Rnral is the Pioneer Journal In its 
sphere, and keeps ahead of all imitators and abreast 
of the times and ago. Try It a year, nod see. 
New York, Monday, March 31,1873. 
R cedin'*.—The receipts of the principal kinds of 
produce for tin; past week are as follows: 
Flour, bids. 45,300 Pork, hid s . 5.300 
Wheat, bush....... 42,050'Beef, pfcga.. 318 
Com, bush. ... iR'i.lUj Cut meat-, pkgs... 25,7*0 
Oat”, bush. 157.f4Ul.urfi, pkgs. . 15.100 
Grass seed, bush.. 2,4V) Butter, pkg«. H.Mla 
Barley, bush. U,4(» (Tuvae, pkgs. i4,P#l 
Malt, hush. 7,«*i Pried F ruits, pkgs, 211 
Bean*, tobls__ 1,055 Fores hbls. ... 12,000 
Corn meal bids_ 5,757 Wool, imles.. 750 
Corn meal, Miga... 4JX 1 I Dtps, bales. 21, 
Colton, bates. 10,240 I'ciumts hags. t,9f>0 
Rye. bush. -— Dressed Hogs, No, 2,050 
Mean-Olid t’cah Tho business In both mediums 
and marrowfats is very light, but the receipts arc 
small, and price- arts without change. White Kidney 
are quiet; red kidney are inactive. Canada pen-are 
in light supply, and held at better prices. Green peas 
are in small receipt. 
W e (j is; itcprime media ms, ?2.U0r< ; 2.05; prime isnrruw- 
I5its.82.ftV}'2.711; prime kidneys,$2.7rfW./.80: prime pea 
beans, Fb'Jft'.iO: lair do., 82.25; red kidney, 45',.50 for 
prime; Canada peas, free, bids., $l.S0(a>I.<!3; green 
peas, hush,, 8 b!!(b' 2 . 
licrswnx. -For prime Southern there Is ;t fair 
trade from shippers, at steady prices. Hales Sok'.38c. 
Western Is lit demandut 34 tie. 
lirtmm Corn. Manufacturers buy quite freely 
lit, current prices:—7K ,; . lor prime hurl; 0 («"'•, for 
newgreen; Oyjii; Wc. for old do.. 5 ®Or. for old mixed, 
and 2643(4 for old red. Brooms bring $1.75(^4.50 per 
dozen for common lo best, house. 
Butter. The market isin no regular shape to al¬ 
low reliable quotations for new make, old stands 
where it did, vt ith extreme prices raid for the trilling 
remnant of choice, and fairly use fat grades realizing 
tho Improved fiMiiitig that Im- atlcadrd them during 
(lie late rule of nigh price-. New butter is eubjc t lo 
the -ante precarious openingtliat.nlwaysaecotnpanics 
lt» first appearance. Most of I lie choice oifi l - in re¬ 
tailers bunds, and buyers are rather compelled to \ iv 
the present rates for now. JCvery few days now will 
lend to forward Improve'I qualities of new, and tho 
early sale of much of tno white will have to compen¬ 
sate for the losses ot lot* pushed one side when the 
stock assume? any bulk. 
Wo quote f talc new fancy half-tubs, 12et45c.; good, 
SVrt41e,t do. Welsh, ;>5<?«4Sc.; Western packages. }->*!(■ •: 
40c.; old Suite dallies, fine. t.'lci.Me.; do. lair to good, 
R 8 e.r tile, t line Ini If tub*, in lot*. 45w47c. < soloctlons of 
halt tubs. 5de.; Welsh Fall, ;wjH0c.; do., common, 
::.Vn t‘-V-; -lore packed l.V-v 20 e ; Western rolls, lUic. Illrki 
,mni( 
prime, 27®33c.; do. fair to good 2 R,. poor lots. 18 
©20c. Fancy Canada, In a small way, SVc. 
<;hee.se. There is no • proud animation in tho 
market. Dealers feel the stock to he perfectly /life, 
particularly the best grades of factory. The export 
is a little larger this week, approaching 10,000 boxes. 
This is an Important withdrawal from the slock, and 
prices are firm. Wo have dropped tho lie.quotation, 
ns there Is not lung now offering good enough to quote 
so high. The Liverpool cable quotes 73s.; London, 
do., 74s. 
Wo quote State factory, prime and fancy, if h'- 
Pi ye.; fin. good., ire.; do. lair, 14c.: State dairy, prime. 
Kir.; do. fair, 13W'alt^c. Ohio factory, prime, 14)/- 
I do. good, 13® 14c. English dairy, prime, 14c.; do. 
good. 18e. 
Lot»nu.—There lias been a more active demand 
from both spinners uiul cxpnrters, nub prices ato 
higher. Latest sales for forward delivery are is; r 
for April. I9XC. for May, lHJ.'c. for June, It) H-hle. for 
July, upd 17*,c.Tor Oct. The quotations for spot on- 
ton arc: 
I I'l.ndl*, AUWm., Ncwr Or Wi»»-T*»x»u. 
Ordinary. lfiki 15)4 15)4 15) 
Good Ordinary........ MK 10K 17 IT 
Strict fruod Ordinary • 1TY 17*f Itti* 18?j 
how Middling. 1SK 18*2 18)i 11) 
Middling. IRK log 20 20K 
Good Middling. ay. 21V 22 22), 
Dried Fruits.—Them is no improvement in trade, 
| shippers buying s few lots ot apples ami the home 
i cull light. Prices are without change. 
Southern apples,ik$lka; do.,sliced, 60 . 8 c.: West¬ 
ern, "A < 545 54c.; Stuto, WrnUfiv. Petdoil peaches at 14wl5f. 
for Hi'., l - 1 5c. for V n.. a re* I Ic. fur North Ca 
lina. Unpeeled ponchos, 4c. for quarters, andoyt* 
5Hc. for halves. Cherries, SiogAifte. Plum.”, lhiilk. 
Blackberries, ifaT'-.c. Raspberrlcr. 8&S34c. 
Eggs.—Prices »r- steadily declining under largo 
receipts and reports of increasin'/ shipments forward 
from tho Interior. Rales are 2 O, 20 y ; c. for geutliern. 
20>£©21e for Western, 21ffi2l>Jn. lor State and Fecp- 
Tlio Doeiinientis.—Specimen Numbers, Premium 
Lists, Show Bills, etc., are promptly sent free and 
post-paid to all disposed to aid in circulating the 
Rural New-Yorker in their respective localities. 
The .Rural’* Premium Picture, “llirth-Day 
Morning,” a Superb Stool Engraving, worth $5, is 
sent post-paid, to every one paying only $2.50 for 
Moore’s Rural for 1873. It Is Now Ready, and will 
be sent, without delay to all entitled. 
How to Kemit Hafcb. Romlttances for single 
or cltth subscriptions lo the Hr UAL rany bo made by 
Draft, Post-Office Money Order or Registered Letter, 
of our risk. Drafts and P. O. Money Orders preferred 
where obtainable.-hut yon risk nothingtn sending by 
cither of tho modus above mentioned provided the 
remittance 1» properly inclosed and mailed. 
CURRENT TOPICS 
interest. On the 4th Inst-., ho writes, lie. was 
returning from a visit, to a friend with Mr. 
PoaguB, when he observed a vapor issuing front 
some crevices in tho Western side of the famous 
Natural bridge of Virginia, and del ected a pe¬ 
culiar odor iu I ho atmosphere. Upon telling 
their friends of the circumstances, it was sug¬ 
gested that, the vapor was eirnply a mist, and 
the peculiar odor that of « polecat. 
Mr. Me Cluer, however, had occasion to pass 
that way op tho 8th List., and he found things 
in a sndly excited condition. Heavy and in¬ 
tensely black clouds, easily seen for a distance 
of a mile, hung about the spot, and rite negroes, 
who occupied the deserted premises near by. 
had fled to Die hotel in the vicinity. Every one 
about Die hotel seemed greatly frightened, and 
many were preparing to depart. From below 
the bridge volumes of deep black smoke were 
rolling continually, except when interrupted 
by jots of bright tinine. which occasionally 
flared up to a great bight. Tho surface of the 
ground was warm for some distance around, 
and was steaming visibly ; the peculiar smell lie 
had before noticed was perceptible to all. The 
rock on the western side of the bridge was 
cracked by t he heat, and large masses had fallen 
into Cedar Creek. Tho arch, as well as could be 
seen at intervals, was still intact, but there was 
now and then t.o be heard the crashing sound 
of a boulder as it dashed Into the water below. 
At Mr. MC Clue it’s request, these facts were 
laid before Prof- J. L. Camrmell of the Geolo¬ 
gical Department, who was engaged a number 
of years ago, in the geological survey‘of the 
region from the Blue Ridge as far west as the 
Kanawha coal fields, during which his attention 
was attract ed to this wonderful structure which 
gives a name to Rockridge County. 
He says : 44 In examining critically the form¬ 
ation, I discovered that the bridge was com¬ 
posed of mountain lime, with large fissures 
filled with grahamite, which, as is well known, 
is a kind of bituminous coal or asphaltum, 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
rigan Bishop of Newark, and lev. M, Goss, 
Bishop of .Savannah The ICtnpcror of Ger¬ 
many celebrated hi* sixty-seventh biri Inlay on 
Die Sid ult. The Canadian Ministry was de¬ 
feated on the 24th_A cable is to in; laid from 
Ireland to New Hampshire- . Tin. Spanish 
Corltv, has been broken up... .Russia. Germany, 
ami Austria refuse to recognize the Spanish 
Republic.: A German squadron lias gone to 
Spain_A ministerial erlAta is impending in 
Spain. The garrison at Barcelona is in mill iny. 
A levy en masse is to be made to suppress the 
Carlist*_The Mayor of London has given a 
grand banquet ..The Canary Islands talk Of 
independence from Spain — Insubordination 
and Carlist ism is spreading in Spain.-The French 
Courts have declared the El Paso Railroad 
a swindle, and sentenced Gen. Fremont to five 
years’ imprisonment Republicans arc or¬ 
ganizing in Havana. . And now Don Carlos is 
said to have abdicated in favor of his son. 
Next? ..In Bolton, England, 2,500 miners nr® 
on a strike_It is proposed to banish the Bona¬ 
parte* from France. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
New York City and Vicinity. 
The murder of Charles Goodrich in Brook¬ 
lyn is a groat mystery, and causes much excite¬ 
ment... The stone masons on Fourth nvenue 
have struck, and their places have been supplied 
by others. . Crispins and gas-nn.n threaten to 
strike It is denied that Foster attempted 
suicide. He was buried in Greenwood, which 
was contrary to the constitution of that ceme¬ 
tery’_Mr. Beecher favors the abolition of 
capital punishment. Bold robberies are fre¬ 
quent . The Brooklyn bridge will cost $ 12 , 000 ,- 
000. The Kensolt collection of picture* hits 
boon sold at. good prices Marshall Magnifier 
has been sent to State Prison for ten years for 
shooting Clarence J. Lockwood— Heggi, who 
1b supposed to have poison oil Siegfried, bus been 
acquitted.. Mr, John Anderson, a wealthy to¬ 
bacconist, has given Prof. Agassiz $150,000 to 
found a school for tho study of nature — Dr. 
Mansfield, a spiritualist, has been sued for 
fraud_A woman, supposed to be concerned 
in the murder of Mr. Goodrich of Brooklyn, 
has been found .Two sawdust swindlers have 
been committed... .Geo. Francis Train demundg. 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS 
!Yo Female Suffrage Vei—But something far 
better and more valuable, a AVI Ison Sewing Ma¬ 
chine for every wife and mother in the Union, 
and at the low price of $50 each for the full 
finished machine. People ask why the Wilson, 
a lending machine in all respects, can bn sold 
for $50. The answer is easy and direct—because 
its proprietors do not belong to a great “ ring” 
whose purpose it is to keep up the price of sew¬ 
ing machines. They are the true friends of the 
people, and show their sincerity in a way tHut. 
